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FORD MOTOR CO. v. RICE

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726 So.2d 626 (1998)

FORD MOTOR COMPANY v. Mary RICE et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Bird III, T. Michael Brown, and Kenneth M. Perry of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, L.L.P., Birmingham; and Robert H. Turner, Marion, for appellant.

Joe R. Whatley, Jr., and Peter H. Burke of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, L.L.C., Birmingham; R. Ben Hogan III of Hogan, Smith & Alspaugh, Birmingham; J.L. Chestnut of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Pettaway, Selma; T. Roe Frazer II and Richard Freese of Langston, Frazer, Sweet & Freese, Jackson, MS; and Drayton Pruitt and Nathan G. Watkins of Pruitt, Pruitt and Watkins, Livingston, for appellee.

Samuel H. Franklin and Stephen J. Rowe of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, for amici curiae Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., and Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, in support of the appellant.

J. Mason Davis of Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Greater Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce, in support of the appellant.

Guy Tipton, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama AFL-CIO.

SHORES, Justice.

Pursuant to Rule 5, Ala. R.App. P., this Court granted Ford Motor Company ("Ford") permission to appeal from an interlocutory order holding that Ford was not entitled to a summary judgment on the fraudulent-suppression claims of the named plaintiffs in this putative class action brought on behalf of Alabama residents who owned Ford Bronco II sport utility vehicles. We reverse and remand.

The named plaintiffs, Mary Rice, Brent Puckett, and...

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